Amazon keeps on wooing enterprise admins, this time with Windows System Center support

By Barb Darrow   

Summary:
If you want to win enterprise workloads to your cloud, making it easy for in-house admins to manage their resources from a familiar screen is a good way to start.

photo: Barb Darrow

If you thought Amazon would let up on its enterprise cloud push, you have another think coming. The company just released a new tool that promises to let Windows admins — folks used to working with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (who makes up these awful names?)  — to manage their EC2 instances from a console that will look familiar to them.
Per the AWS blog post:

This add-in allows you to monitor and manage your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances (running either Windows or Linux) from within Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. You can launch new instances and you can also perform common maintenance tasks such as restarting, stopping, and removing instances. You can even connect to the instances using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

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